Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surveillance by fading into hooker-infested back alleys. She has sat primly in "love hotels" taking notes as informants rattled on about the doings of a terrorist cell. Sarah should have been the perfect spy. But her boss had other ideas. He assigned her to a desk job and escort duty for junketeering congressional wives. "I've dealt with some real lowlifes," she says. "But my supervisor was more of a sleazebag than any of the men I met. They treated me with respect; he stared at my legs and gave me bad assignments...
Allied fighter-bombers were everywhere, prowling for targets, flying so low that it was impossible to spot them until the very last moment. On the back of the truck, we piled mattresses against the canvas sides-as if that could have stopped cannon or machine-gun fire. Whenever our escort troopers sighted planes, the truck rumbled to cover -- a copse of trees, a clutch of houses. The threat from the air was not new to us: during the December evacuation, when the refugee train had come under repeated air attack, Mother had covered the baby with her body...
...walk to the Quad late at night is acknowledged by everyone to be dangerous, and as a result there are shuttles, Safety Walk and the escort service. A walk to the suburban houses of Dunster and Mather, while potentially quite dangerous, receives relatively little attention...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...
...ANGELES--Like rush hour traffic on the southbound Santa Ana Freeway on those days when Al Cowlings and O.J. Simpson aren't driving with a police escort, Los Angeles--if you believe the elite, non-avaca-do-eating East Coast media...